Major modification to Speakup

[Kerry Hoath]

He said the driver was selectable at *boot* time.
This would indicate that you'd need to *reboot* to change the speech driver.
Speech driver chosen by a *boot time argument*
please read; it makes all our lives easier.
No you can't come up with no speech and enable it later.

Kerry.
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:35:34PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
> Is it yet possible to boot without speech, then enable it later? Suppose
> I'm at a machine using my dectalk express, but this system just might
> happen to reboot when I've tak
> en the dectalk back when I'm done with the machine, but down time would
> matter.u wrote:
> >I have just finished modifying Speakup so that multiple synthesizer
> >drivers can be included in the kernel, and you can choose which
> >synthesizer you want (or no synth at all) as a boot parameter.  You
> >can set the default synthesizer in the kernel configuration and then
> >override the default with the speakup_synth parameter at boot time.  A
> >synthesizer choice of "none" results in no speech (an especially
> >useful default for kernels that will be used by sighted people as well
> >as blind people).  This modification will enable Linux distribution
> >makers to include Speakup in their distributions with little or no
> >difficulty.
> >
> >-- 
> >Matt Campbell <http://www.pobox.com/~mattcampbell/>  ICQ #:  33005941
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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